Kakashis POV:

Eighty-thousand, that's how many ninjas were gathered for the allied shinobi force. I was blown away, I never thought in my life time I would see all the villages come together like this. It was rather beautiful to look at but I knew in my heart we weren't going home with eighty-thousand.

I needed to regain my focus back, thanks to our intelligence team we learned Obito and Kabuto we're working together and they were using Edo Tensei; reanimation jutsu. It was a forbidden jutsu that was long gone but leave it to them to use it. My command and I were running and just in time too, Zabuza and Haku were the first of the dead we had seen. Luckily once the fight was done we had some sealing shinobi with us. Once the dead were gone again, they wouldn't be able to come back. Leaving them to actually rest in peace.

I made myself run faster so I could block Zabuza's attack on Sai, Gai right behind me, blocking Hakus attack.

"I knew I was going to fight today but I didn't expect to see you, Kakashi" Zabuza gritted between his teeth as we were using our strength to fend each other of our kunais.

"This is real life, you're here because of Edo Tensei" I said, my arm was shaking slightly.

"Your kunoichi has grown a lot, I see. How's the other kid doing?" he said, his eyes were past me now, looking at Sakura. He was probably looking for Naruto as well. That was a mission I would never forget. Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura learned a lot that day as a team, as ninja and themselfs.

"He learned his way of the ninja from you two," I said, trying to keep my strength up.

"He's only going to become stronger" Haku said, a small smile appeared on the boys face. I knew he was right, Naruto might be an idiot sometimes but he never faltered. Zabuza and Haku learned they didn't need to be how they were before they died. On some level, they found each other's strength and light in one another. It made me sad that day when they died, they never got a chance to actually live before dying together.

I felt like we were testing each others strength for a long time but something weird began to happen. Zabuza and Haku started glowing and they looked in pain.

"Kakashi.. Stop us. I died a human" Zabuza managed to get out as a dark purple shadow incased his body and suddenly his eyes changed, both of their eyes changed.

"Kakashi, please stop us again" Haku said, a white energy had formed around him. Their eyes though, they were different now and I knew deep within me they had been succumbed to the lifeless puppet they were summoned to be. All emotions were void.

"Fall back!" I yelled to my command and everyone around me, we all jumped backwards now. The fight was to begin. As soon as Zabuza was really gone, a thick mist started to roll in and coffins had hit the ground. Was this more of the dead? I shifted my headband up to activate my sharingan to I could watch better. All the coffins busted open like the people on the other side kicked them open with force and all seven of the original mist swordsman appeared and I knew this fight was going to be difficult.

"Fight together!" I yelled and everyone around me jumped, sending all sorts of weapons, fire, and jutsu forward at lightning spread toward the threat.

Before I could react though I saw nearly fifty little ice needles flying in my direct and to anyone who was around me, Haku was coming full speed towards us. He was mercilessly killing any ninja who stood in his way, stabbing them in the chest. I jumped out of the way, knowing my command could take him on. My target was Zabuza and that's where my focus lies. Zabuza and I fought hand and hand until he backflipped into the mist and I lost track of him for a minute.

"Captain Kakashi, were behind you" a shinobi said from behind me, his shadow paralysis jutsu ready to follow me to trap Zabuza when ready. I nodded my head and I used my hand signs to light up my hands, my chidori ready to strike. I charged forward, shinobi running behind me but I stopped dead in my tracks. Zabuza had executioner again and I quickly scanned the area, the swordsman brought their swords, how fitting. They were all off. Our ninjas and the enemy were head to head now. I was watching as bodies would go down like nothing. Haku was using his mirror jutsu to easily slide between everybody, killing them instantly.

That's when my eyes landed back on Zabuza, he swung his sword, clashing with another one causing his sword tip to break. But I knew it would only repair itself.

"While he's distracted, let's move" I said out loud to my surrounding comrades. I charged forward, my chidori pierced the air with its sharp bird like noises. I was nearly three feet away from Zabuza at this point, ready to send my jutsu into his back and come out of his chest.

My chidori pierced something alright but it wasn't Zabuza, my eyes opened in shock to see Haku in front of me. My arm was sticking out of the other side of him, the hole in his chest was huge from the close impact. The shards of glass Haku had moneuvard threw were scattering by our feet.

Before I got the chance to register what was happening, Zabuza was swinging executioner in full circle, coming straight towards my mid section. He was going to cut us in half.

"Captain Kakashi, look out!" a shinobi yelled and both my body and Hakus had barely managed to get out of the way. I could feel my vest had been cut open and Haku had suffered more than just my chidori. Zabuza had focused on me know and I kneeled down to place Hakus body on the ground. Something inside my chest was warm, I knew they wanted me to stop them but I didn't think I would have to lay his body to rest twice. I removed my arm from his chest and watched the hole I made fill up with paper. Now wasn't the time to be sad and so I pushed myself back up off the ground.

Zabuza and I locked eyes and I lit my chidori up once more. The sealing team had come to place Hakus body away and I looked over to the ninja who was linked to me with his shadow possession and we nodded an exchange.

I charged forward in a moments notice, Zabuza did the same thing. I had to be careful though, he had a small advantage over me due to the length of his weapon but I had speed. I focused on his heart. It happened instantly, I nearly missed his sword, it was an inch above my right shoulder but my left arm went right into his chest. We stood for a second, our eyes locked and then I felt his body lock up. I looked down to see his body was void now, he was captured and I removed my arm from him and all life slipped away. The sealing team were already here, ready to lay him to rest again.

I took a step back and noticed my command was busy in the time frame I was fighting with Zabuza, they had all the swordsman sealed as well and almost as if on cue, the mist was fading away. Leaving the white zetsu's to deal with once again. As we were fighting them though, it felt like for every one that died, ten more would appear in its place.

"Amateratsu!" I heard someone yell and I looked in front of me to see near thirty zetsu light up in black flame. My eyes looked over to see Itachi coming down to the ground. He must have jumped up high to send a wide spread.

We exchanged glances and we gave each other a head nod. We might of not liked each other but we knew at this current moment we had to fight the enemy and not each other.

"Glad to see you finally arrived" I said, not letting my grudge go completely as he walked near and then I noticed he had blood coming out of his left eye. Did he already expend whatever chakra he had? I didn't bother asking because I knew he would fight until his last breath regardless.

"I was busy fighting other people, you know," he said back and took position behind me so we were back to back, ready to fight the white zetsu. And that's what we did and nothing felt like it was ever going to end.

"Um, captain we have a problem" A young ninja spoke to me and I looked over to see the zetsus near them were transforming into our own ninja. They were copying our looks and chakra and it was now impossible to tell who was the real one.

"I can't even tell the difference," a Hyuga spoke with their Byakugan activated, looking at the zetsus surrounding us.

"No one move until we figure out what to do!" I yelled as loudly as I could and everything just stopped, it turned into a giant staring contest at this point. I hoped wherever Naruto and Bee were they were hidden and safe or this was all for nothing. Naruto had left way before everyone else did with Yamato, to train somewhere in the meantime while we fought against Obito.

"Kakashi, you need to let me leave. I have a feeling I know where Kabuto is" Itachi whispered to me as he put his back to mine.

"Are you insane? I know this is the real you but no one else does, they might think you're the enemy and try and kill you. As much as I would enjoy seeing that, I can't let it happen" I spoke to him, my eyes scanning the area. Whatever zetsu really was, human or creation he was of his own kind, no doubt it.

"I'll take the chance, at least if the caster dies, we don't have to worry about anymore reanimations" Itachi pleaded.

"No" I said harshly and continued my focus the matter as hand, or lack of.

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"Kakashi sensei!" a voice I wish I hadn't heard, yelled my name, I looked over to see a bright orange chakra covered Naruto nearing me and quickly. What on earth kind of jutsu was he under?

"I'm here to help" I said, punching his right fist in his left hand.

"You're supposed to be hidden! This war is to protect you!" Itachi yelled first, sounding angered. I was too but he said it first.

"It's only a shadow clone, calm down" he said and looked around.

"I can see whos real and who isn't" Naruto spoke and a few more of him appeared. If it was one thing Naruto did that never failed, it was surprising people.

"How can you tell?" I asked, curious.

"While I'm in this mode, I can see chakra. I can see who's good and who's bad" he informed us and went straight for the cloned Sakura, I wanted to look away incase he was wrong but I just couldn't. He punched the cloned Sakura in the chest with force and instantly the white zetsu appeared, lying on the ground. Then something weird happen, a tree starting to grow from the dead body.

"Start yelling whose real and who isn't," I barked at Naruto and he nodded his head. The quicker we could get passed this, the quicker we could join everyone on the main battlefield.

Some time had passed and Naruto with help, finished off the clones in our area. Near the last zetsu, Naruto's orange chakra clock had faded. I guess he couldn't stay in that mode for long and within minutes all of his clones had vanished, leaving a regular Naruto clone behind.

"Do you have any intel?" I asked him, approaching the beat up cloned version of my student.

"Not anymore than the intelligence unit has, I had released a few of my clones all over to help with the zetsu problem. I couldn't just sit behind and watch everyone fight for me" he said casually, dusting some dirt off of his clothes. I wanted to slap the clone but I knew it was pointless because it was disappear on contact and I knew he was right.

"Our fight in this area is done, disband into the other units for backup" I shouted at everyone and everyone took off in different directions except for Gai and Itachi.

"Go find Kabuto, make him pay" I looked Itachi in the eyes and he took off like a bat out of hell.

Itachis POV:

"Go find Kabuto, make him pay" Kakashi said to me, looking me in the eyes and I left. I moved as fast as my body would allow me. My eyes were bothered me slightly from the Amerteratsu I used, my vision in my right eye was wavering in and out. I wasn't going to let it stop me though. Taking down Kabuto was more important. I just knew I couldn't kill him or all reanimated wouldn't leave until they were killed. I could however, revert back to themselves with emotion so they could fight on behalf of their own will until they died.

I had studied to the best of my ability Kakashi's fight with the demon of the mist himself, Zabuza. I saw something switch in him and from my previous knowledge of Edo Tensei, you could control every action of user casted upon, up to the caster themselves of course. Kabuto had taken over Orochimaru's everything, he knew things that people of his age shouldn't know. Orochimaru had corrupted him so Kabuto was driven off of blind faith and loyalty. Kabuto was going to learn though, just because you were powerful, didn't mean you were strong.

I was pushing myself at this point, the further I ran, the less noise I could hear. The war had been all over the land of lightning. Although I could hear someone running behind me and I glanced behind to see Sasuke, I slowed myself a bit so he could catch up.

"What are you doing? Go help everyone" I said, hoping from tree branch to tree branch.

"I was helping but I heard Kakashi, you're not going to fight Kabuto alone. He's dangerous" Sasuke sneered at me and I knew that I wasn't going to change his mind.

"We need to fight together, if I tell you to do something. Do it" I said to my little brother. I wasn't going to have his temper override his logic and get himself killed or the both of us.

"Understood" he said sharply, nodding his head and we continued heading towards an old base Orochimaru used to use. Kabuto had to of been using this base considering he needed to be near to continue casting the forbidden jutsu. His sick game would come to an end, I was going to make sure of it.

It only took us another five minutes but we had reached the front of the base. I knew he wouldn't have any traps set up because when you were operating at that level of insanity, you didn't think anyone would come near.

Sasuke entered first, he must of known where he was going it pained me slightly knowing he knew of these places because of me. I tried so hard to protect him all these years but yet I'm the one who pushed him into evil. I shook my head of those thoughts, now was not the time for this.

We had walked in the dark for a bit, we were underground in a giant cave, water was all over the floor and it was deadly quiet. A perfect place for a snake like Kabuto himself. We continued moving as quiet as possible.

We had reached the room where Kabuto was, he was on the ground looking at a board with small white pieces on it. It looked like a board game but I knew it was just to see where his puppets were.

"Both of the estranged brothers are gracing me, how pleasant" Kabuto said, turning towards us. We were only near him for three seconds, he was on top of his game that was for sure.

He locked eyes with me and I could see his was half snake under his cloak, what the hell happened. Before either of us could say anything, Kabutos snake were surrounding him, he was ready to fight already.

"This will be fun" he sneered, his long tongue coming out of his mouth and four giant snakes shot forward and we dodged backwards away from them. They caused some wall damaged and the only thing I could think of was to activate a small susano to stop the snakes.

"Whatever you do Sasuke, do not kill him" I hissed towards me brother who was in position of his own small Susano, sword in front of him. Kabutos snakes were gripped onto the sides of my susano with their jaws.

"He's not going to be easy to kill anyways," Sasuke sneered and lunged forward toward Kabuto while he was still focused on me. I watched Sasuke throw his sword straight toward Kabuto, making him jump back behind a pillar.

"Be patient, Sasuke" I snapped at him. Kabuto wasn't like he used to be, he had new tricks up his sleeve. I watched carefully in the dark corner where Kabuto was, not sure what he was going to do next.

"Without Orochimaru, you're still nothing. Just come out and face us!" Sasuke yelled, I looked over and he was raging.

I could hear a chuckle from the corner and out came Kabuto, my eyes were looking around and I could see chakra everywhere in the ground. Was he about to say what I thought?

"I'm no longer a snake young Sasuke, my Sage form is perfect now. I'm now a dragon!" Kabuto said with evil on his tongue and sent snakes flying in my direction at a fast rate. I managed to move out of the way and then I felt a giant hand wrap around me. Sasuke had grabbed me with his susano, pulling me towards him. Once I was on the floor again, my own susano was back.

Kabuto was moving at a speed that was hard for even me to keep up with but I managed. He wanted me dead first, I knew that much. He appeared next to me in an instant, we fought hand in hand for a second before he backed away quickly, he was in the air now.

"Sage art: White extreme attack" he yelled, sending a red dragon towards us. A purple ball in the middle and my eyes widened because I knew what was coming next was only going to stun us. I watched the dragon race around the ball and instantly vanish, leaving behind a burst of white light and an ear piercing noise. Sasuke covered his ears and closed his eyes, screaming in pain. I closed my eyes for a brief second and reopened my right eye. My vision still wasn't getting better giving me a small chance to look around for Kabuto, he was charging at Sasuke this time. Sasuke susano had faded to due him not being able to concentrate, leaving him wide open for an attack.

I pushed threw the small pain in my head from the loud noise that was almost done and encased Sasuke in my susanos fist as a protective cage. Kabuto had stopped in his tracks, fleeing into the darkness once again. Leaving us be for the moment and then an idea popped into my head.

"Sasuke, remember the time you wanted to help me with that wild boar? I think it's time for you to help again" I said, glancing over at my brother giving him a small smirk. He nodded his head, fully understanding the plan in motion. His memory was like mine, we forget nothing and it was time to catch our prey in a trap.

"Did I forget to mention the best part of this plan?" Kabuto asked from above. I looked up and he was hanging from the ceiling with his tail, staring at the both of us.

"It doesn't matter" Sasuke spat at him, running from us.

"Well then, I guess it'll be a surprise" Kabuto said casually, shrugging his shoulders. I did want to know though, surprises during a war were never good.

I scanned over to see Sasuke was ready to initiate the plan. I used my susano and started running towards Kabuto, I hurled four giant senbons at him using the energy of my susano, all going around him to hit the ceiling to make him lose focus. While Kabuto watched where my attack went, Sasuke used his own susanos bow and aimed it right at Kabuto's tail so we would be stuck above, rendering him an easy target.

We had managed to pull it off and Kabuto was stuck in the air. Then I saw what Kabuto saw, Sasuke's sword that was still lodged into the wall. He was swinging himself for it and I had to act.

"He's going to cut his own tail off!" Sasuke yelled. I figured that much. Kabuto was so close until I jumped at him, grabbed Sasuke's sword and swiped at him. I managed to cut on his horns off and he wiggled free from the ceiling. He stood near five five from one another and we started clashing weapons. I hadn't used a sword since my anbu days and Kabuto was quick when face to face.

"I should have you know the surprise, you seem eager, Itachi" Kabuto sneered, licking his lips creepily. I remained quiet and focused on our hand to hand combat.

"The ultimate weapon has been reanimated, have you ever heard of Uchiha Madara?" he asked and I froze but only for a brief second. That second was to long though, he used it to his advantage. I felt his kunai dive right into the center of my chest. I fell to my knees in agonizing pain, he stuck me good. He luckily didn't hit my heart though.

"Itachi!" was the last thing I heard before I lost vision in both of my eyes and I fell forward.

I had to think of something because our boy itachi was rudely taken from us again not long after kabuto falls from the ceiling. my apologies its short and if its terrible, let me know. theres so much more to come and i promise the next chapter will be a lot longer.